Are you one of those people? You go to a dinner party and tell everyone that you’re dead inside, and they just laugh and laugh? So you’re hitting the clubs. You get booked every night, sometimes twice a night, and you just want to make people laugh. You want this to be your life, right? Work your way up like …

The Book Doctors Interview Annik LaFarge on How to Be a More Effective Author Online. Here’s a great article published on HUFFINGTON POST back in 2011. The Book Doctors interviewed expert Annik LaFarge. Annik is the author of The Author Online: A Short Guide to Building Your Website, Whether You Do it Yourself (and you can!) or You Work With …

It all boils down to one thing: visibility. The people who will pay you for your writing… are searching the web for writers. There’s a terrific article on ABOUT FREELANCE WRITING by Anne Wayman (we like to call her ‘thought-leader Anne Wayman’) that addresses this question in some depth. Anne has some excellent ideas on how to get started. We …

Writers – The answer is yes! Back in 2013 (like, a lifetime ago, amiright?) EVERY WRITER posted this thoughtful gem. Here’s the opener, which should convince you immediately: Let’s get the hard part out of the way first. No writer coming up can survive on story alone today and even writing talent doesn’t guarantee you a spot on the stage. …

Unpublished writers–here’s someone to look at: Jane Friedman has 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, with expertise in digital media strategy for authors and publishers. She’s the co-founder and editor of The Hot Sheet, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors, and is the former publisher of Writer’s Digest. She has been interviewed and featured by NPR, PBS, …